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SB 1070: Two More Sections Enjoined by Judge Susan R. Bolton

With oral arguments scheduled to take place April 25 before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona's breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, Arizona District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton today enjoined two sections of the law she had not previously put on hold in 2010, when she stymied the most egregious parts...
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Cart Toon Network

As great works of literature and pop culture have taught us, forces of good will always have a vile and villainous nemesis to oppose them. And as anyone who’s seen Anchorman can attest, the (marginally) heroic Channel 4 News Team’s eternal enemies will always be Wes Mantooth and his rival...
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Tonight: Nine Shows We’re Excited to Check Out on Third Friday

Be it a ​First Friday or a Third Friday -- we're just excited about having an excuse (not that we need one) to see some great art exhibitions. Some are opening tonight Downtown, others have opened this month throughout metro Phoenix. But you better believe that we're making the loop and...
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Chef Robert McGrath Leaves Spotted Donkey Cantina

Less than three months into his new stint as executive chef at Spotted Donkey Cantina, the upscale Southwestern and Mexican restaurant at Hayden Village in Scottsdale, ​Robert McGrath, the James Beard Award-winning chef and former owner of Roaring Fork, is gone. McGrath took the Spotted Donkey gig last October, after...
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Jealous Sound @ The Rogue Bar

It's hard to make a comeback, but it helps if you went out on a high note. Ignoring a digital-only EP in 2005, The Jealous Sound's last big blast of noise was Kill Them with Kindness (2003). And what a blast it was — the swaggering, confident sound of emo...
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Can I Make Purple Velvet Cupcakes?

Can I make purple velvet cupcakes? Or do I have to stick to red? Yes, it is possible to make purple velvet cupcakes. All you need is some good food coloring! Keep in mind that since there is cocoa powder in the recipe, they will turn out a darker purple...
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SB 1070: Why Obama Is Partly to Blame for the Racist Bill

Listening to the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona's breathing-while-brown law, Senate Bill 1070, prompted a daydream. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Antonin Scalia are in a battered pickup truck with garden tools visible in the back. Set in the midst of Sheriff Joe Arpaio country — as...
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Education Only a Con Man (or Congressman) Could Love

Bobby Ruffin Jr. was only 14 when a recruiter from Ashford University called. The boy from Birmingham, Michigan, thought he'd clicked on a link promising help finding money for college. It was actually just a lead generator for the for-profit online school's sales staff. At the time, Bobby was an...
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Father Gets a New Trial in the Death of His Little Boy

Jeffrey Martinson, who not long ago was facing a possible cell on death row, has won a new lease on his legal life with a momentous court ruling ordering a new trial. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sally Duncan's seven-page ruling overturned last November's guilty jury verdicts of first-degree murder...
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Sherlock Holmes Gets a Bond Makeover in A Game of Shadows

Although supplying boy's adventure thrills on the side, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are remarkable for how they make the process of empirical brainwork, and the resulting discoveries, breathlessly exciting. Each Holmes tale simultaneously unlocks a mystery while deepening the enigma of its hero in a miraculously sustained piece...
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Why Authorities Could’ve Prevented J.T. Ready’s Murder Spree

If Jason Todd Ready had been a run-of-the-mill, delusional, Holocaust-denying racist neo-Nazi who liked to play with guns, I suppose we could could spare an ounce of surprise that, according to the Gilbert police, he killed himself and four others — including a baby girl, her mom, and her grandmother...